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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The chapter “Model Transfer as a Case of Interdisciplinary Research in Science” by @cherfeld.bsky.social and Edoardo Peruzzi, published in the Ethics of the Sciences collection, is now available online! It sketches a taxonomy of modification procedures that enable cross-domain model transfer.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Murat Bakeev's article, "Model Transfer, the Challenge of Tractability Standards, and Methodological Embedding," has been published in Philosophy of Science as FirstView! You can read it open access via the link below. #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer @erc.europa.eu

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Edoardo’s pictures from his last conference trip in Helsinki. He presented at ENPOSS 2026 joint work with @cherfeld.bsky.social and Malte Doehne on Sleeping Beauties and Model Transfer. He also joined the event for celebrating the TINT Centre for Philosophy of Social Science.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Our PI, Catherine Herfeld @cherfeld.bsky.social, presented today at the colloquium of our LUH friends from CELLS @mapsproject.bsky.social, on "Awakening Sleeping Beauties in Economics: The Role of Model Transfer." Thank you for the great questions! #ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Our postdoc Bele Wollesen @belewollesen.bsky.social gave an invited commentary at this year’s Wittgenstein Lectures at the University of Bayreuth, which were delivered by Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com under the title "Connected Intelligence: How Our Social Ties Generate Knowledge."

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Our team member Murat Bakeev speaking at the early-career researchers’ workshop at the inaugural #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion conference: “Why the History of Science Matters to Society: The Case of Economics.” #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our poster at the Inaugural Conference of the #ForumWissenschaftsreflexion! In this new research building at Leibniz University Hannover, researchers from the humanities and social sciences will conduct joint research on science and higher education. #ModelTransfer #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Here are some photos of @belewollesen.bsky.social presenting at the Market Design Workshop at Radboud University! The title of her presentation was “Manipulability in Collective Decision Mechanisms: What Is Wrong with It and Why Does It Matter?” #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

And so, the #eshethes2026 has come to a close. A huge thank you to the organizing team in Nice including @nbrisset.bsky.social @mdpl06.bsky.social @ncamilotto.bsky.social @alxndrtrc.bsky.social for making it all possible (Pictured: Conversations on Rational Choice on display during the conference)

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🔹A presentation by Murat Bakeev in the parallel session "Philosophy and Historiography," where he presented his and Catherine's joint work on integrated history and philosophy of economics. The conference has been incredibly stimulating, and we look forward to the final day tomorrow.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Today, the #eshethes2026 conference featured two highlights for our project: 🔹A symposium on Catherine Herfeld's @cherfeld.bsky.social new book, Conversations on Rational Choice (with Kevin Hoover, Dorian Jullien, Mario Rizzo, and Malte Dold) #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On the same day, our PI @cherfeld.bsky.social also took part in a round table on EU funding in HET. The discussion focused on funding schemes offered through @erc.europa.eu and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. In particular, Catherine shared her experience with our #ModelTransfer #ERCStG project.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Many thanks to the organizers of the discussion, Dorian Jullien and Francesco Sergi, coordinators of the wonderful project www.oralhistoriesofeconomics.org, which supports researchers in collecting and disseminating oral sources on the history and philosophy of economics.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our participation in the Joint HES-ESHET conference in Nice continued yesterday with the Round Table on Oral Histories (pictured from left: Murat Bakeev, Catherine Herfeld, Edoardo Peruzzi, Solal Azoulay, Alberto Bartoccini, and Ariane Dupont-Kieffer). #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi presenting "Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory" at the History of Microeconomic Theory session of the 1st Joint HES-ESHET conference in Nice! #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The 1st Joint HES-ESHET conference has just started! Come to our talks and round tables: eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-... #ModelTransfer #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Check out the program for our Summer Semester Work-in-Progress seminar! We’ve already hosted three external speakers: Melinda Fagan (University of Utah), @daianbica.bsky.social (HHU Düsseldorf), and Sebastian Fernández-Mulligan (Yale University). (Pictured: our team with Sebastian.) #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Murat Bakeev and @belewollesen.bsky.social presented their research at the Hannover-Groningen Workshop on #philsci at @rug.nl joined by friends from @mapsproject.bsky.social @iphilluh.bsky.social and researchers from Groningen, where the cherry trees are now in bloom! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Closing remarks by Edoardo Peruzzi and Karim Baraghith (@karimbaraghith.bsky.social) You can check out the book of abstracts here: www.model-transfer.uni-hannover.de/en/news-and-... #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #DFG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In the final talk of the workshop, Lena Zuchowski draws on case studies from epidemiology and geomorphology to identify the epistemic, institutional, and methodological obstacles to integrative modeling, such as coupling uncertainties, disciplinary divides, and scale-related challenges

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

@martinpalecek.bsky.social gave a talk, prepared with Mark Risjord, that challenges the "one-theory temptation" in cultural evolutionary science, arguing instead for epistemic integration through a knowledge base comprising working generalizations, existence claims, and reusable modeling templates

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In the first talk after lunch, @juliejebeile.bsky.social proposed examining model transfer through the lens of idealizations, suggesting that what is often transferred is an idealization itself, used as a tool to transform descriptions into calculation devices and applicable across various domains

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The poster by @jsn68.bsky.social presents an account of cultural evolution inspired by neurocognitive models of predictive processing and active inference, as well as approaches from theoretical immunology, drawing on his recent monograph (www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...)

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Iuris's poster, "From Genes to Cultural Features: Ontological Conditions for Model Transfer in Cultural Evolution," examines the challenges of applying models of cultural evolution in archaeology in the absence of adequate conceptual grounding for the selected units of analysis

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

During lunch, Iuris Mocchiutti and Jesper Sørensen presented their posters to the workshop participants

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

@lglopez.bsky.social presents a new approach to understanding model transfer, drawing on the concept of ecological niches to define different research contexts for the application of mathematical models

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The workshop continues with a talk by @thomasreydon.bsky.social discussing the challenges of explanatory unification across the biological and social sciences based on evolutionary models

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We begin the second day of the workshop with a talk by @hanneand.bsky.social on interdisciplinary research, its forms, challenges, and role in scientific progress

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The final talk of the first day, by @awschulz.bsky.social, explored differences in the concern for equity between humans and non-humans, highlighting the distinctive mediating role played by abstract moral norms in the case of humans. See you tomorrow!

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Christine Caldwell gave a talk in which, drawing on experimental evidence. she explored limits on the applicability of models from genetic evolution to cultural transmission, depending on whether payoffs are determined primarily by external pressures or endogenous coordination benefits

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Philipe Barsamian gave a talk, entitled "From Borrowed Templates to Working Models: Stabilization as Policy Settlement in Cultural Evolution"

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The workshop continued with a talk by @acerbialberto.com on the cultural ecology of social media, suggesting to take into account producers’ goals when explaining social media dynamics and thus reframing debates on misinformation, radicalisation and polarisation (preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...)

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@lucasgautheron.bsky.social gave a talk, prepared with @norijacoby.bsky.social and Hannah Rubin, which examined how popularity feedback can reduce diversity and slow innovation in science, based a large-scale online experiment (see arxiv.org/abs/2602.09997). We'll continue after the lunch break!

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@matcharbonneau.bsky.social continued the workshop with a talk arguing that human problem-solving can be understood through cultural evolution theory, and outlining an appropriate transfer strategy between biological evolution and the evolution of problem-representation spaces

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

@cherfeld.bsky.social and Edoardo Peruzzi gave the first talk, presenting an account of model transfer as model construction and outlining a taxonomy of these construction processes, illustrated with examples of model transfers from across scientific disciplines

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In this thread, we’ll be live-posting highlights from the “Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution” workshop talks. Follow along for updates 👇

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The workshop "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer: The Case of Cultural Evolution", organized by @karimbaraghith.bsky.social and our team member Edoardo Peruzzi (co-financed by @erc.europa.eu and @dfg.de), has just begun! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #DFG See link below for details ⬇️

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Our intensive week of collaborative writing has come to a close, and the format has proven fruitful so far.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A snapshot from last week’s doctoral seminar in Erfurt, where our team member Murat Bakeev gave a presentation

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Our team member, PhD candidate Murat Bakeev, spoke today at an online session of the Phil-Econ-Model-Lab (PEM-L). This workshop, funded by INEM, aims to promote collaboration among early-career scholars, with a particular focus on analyzing the role of value judgments in economic modeling.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Another writing group Friday morning with coffee and pastries!

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Alberto Bartoccini, our visiting PhD student from the University of Siena, spent a week at the Macmillan Archive in Basingstoke as part of his ongoing research on The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, examining the editorial correspondence of the 1987 edition!

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Writing can be a difficult and often lonely activity. To make it easier, our team member Bele Wollesen hosts weekly Writing Sessions that bring our team and other interested researchers at LUH together to work on individual writing projects in a structured and supportive environment.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

⏰DEADLINE APPROACHING Our team member Edoardo Peruzzi organizes a workshop together with @karimbaraghith.bsky.social: "Scientific Progress via Model Transfer? The Case of Cultural Evolution" 📍 Leibniz Universität Hannover 📅 April 9–10, 2026 Below you’ll find more information about CfP 👇

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

🔥 Excited to welcome Alberto Bartoccini as a visiting scholar to our #ModelTransfer team! Alberto is a PhD student in the joint Economics programme of the Tuscan Universities. As a historian of economic thought, he studies how scientific knowledge is codified, standardized, and transmitted. 👇

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We’re proud of our team member Edoardo Peruzzi, who presented “Harsanyi’s Legacy: Bayesian Games and the Transformation of Microeconomic Theory” last Friday at the HOPE Workshop at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University! @hopecenter.bsky.social #FrontierResearch #ERCStG

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Here’s a group photo from after the workshop! Catherine’s talk introduced a conceptual framework for understanding model transfer as model construction process, along with insights from her research on challenges to progressive model transfer.

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Our PI, @cherfeld.bsky.social, is giving a talk today on model transfer and its challenges in science at the University of Kansas, as part of the workshop “From Biology to Economics and Back: Internal Conflicts and Collective Agency Across Disciplines." collectiveagents.weebly.com/schedule.html

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MODEL TRANSFER ERC Project @modeltransfer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Photo highlights from yesterday’s talk by Edoardo Peruzzi in Pittsburgh (credit: @center4philsci.bsky.social)! #FrontierResearch #ERCStG #ModelTransfer #LTT #CenterPhilSci Watch the recording on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/A73Ifkf...

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